Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811, by a French traveller [L. Simond].1815 |
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... horses we get are by no means good , and draw us with difficulty at the rate of five miles an hour . We change carriages as well as horses at every post- house ; they are on four wheels , light and easy , and large enough for three ...
... horses we get are by no means good , and draw us with difficulty at the rate of five miles an hour . We change carriages as well as horses at every post- house ; they are on four wheels , light and easy , and large enough for three ...
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... horses , but does not look well ; and , as far as we have seen , English post - horses and postillions do not seem to deserve their reputation . This country ( Cornwall , ) abounds in mines , which we have not time to visit . There is a ...
... horses , but does not look well ; and , as far as we have seen , English post - horses and postillions do not seem to deserve their reputation . This country ( Cornwall , ) abounds in mines , which we have not time to visit . There is a ...
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... horses are in general weak and tired , and unmercifully whipt , so much so , as to induce us often to inter- fere in their behalf , choosing rather to go slower than to witness such cruelty . January 4. - We slept last night at Exeter ...
... horses are in general weak and tired , and unmercifully whipt , so much so , as to induce us often to inter- fere in their behalf , choosing rather to go slower than to witness such cruelty . January 4. - We slept last night at Exeter ...
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... horses than in America , with big shaggy legs , and heavy heads . January 5. - Arrived in the evening at Bristol , 48 miles in eight hours , stoppages included ; the horses better . On approaching Bristol , you see , from an elevation ...
... horses than in America , with big shaggy legs , and heavy heads . January 5. - Arrived in the evening at Bristol , 48 miles in eight hours , stoppages included ; the horses better . On approaching Bristol , you see , from an elevation ...
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... horses excellent ; and post - boys riding instead of sitting . Our rate of travelling does not exceed six miles an hour , stoppages included ; but we might go faster if we desired it . We meet with very few post - chaises , but a great ...
... horses excellent ; and post - boys riding instead of sitting . Our rate of travelling does not exceed six miles an hour , stoppages included ; but we might go faster if we desired it . We meet with very few post - chaises , but a great ...
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367 ページ - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
136 ページ - Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time 'to do't. — Hell is murky! — Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
153 ページ - Here let us sweep The boundless landscape; now the raptured eye, Exulting swift, to huge Augusta send, Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow.
136 ページ - tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
134 ページ - Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time, Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem ; Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Like the poor cat i
134 ページ - Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
322 ページ - Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,
173 ページ - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
134 ページ - Like the poor cat i' the adage ? Macbeth. Prithee, peace : I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady Macbeth. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would 50 Be so much more the man.
222 ページ - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...